Improvement in cartridge-loading instruments



w. w. WINUHESTEB. Cartridge-Loading Implements. No, 156,197, w PatentedOct. 20,1374.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

WILLIAM W. WINCHESTER, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO WINCHESTERREPEATING-ARMS COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARTRIDGE-LOADING INSTRUMENTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 156,197, dated October20, 1874; application filed September 30, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM W. WINcHEs- TER, of New Haven, in the countyof New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvementin Cartridge-Loader; and I do hereby declare the following, when takenin connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters ofreference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification,and represent, in

Figure 1, a side view, and in Fig. 2 a longitudinal central section.

This invention relates to an improvement in device for loading orreloading metallic cartridge-shells; and it consists in a pair oflevers, having combined therewith devices for setting and removing theprimer, and setting the ball, and Withdrawing the shell after the ballis set, as more fully hereinafter described.

A is the principal lever or base, terminating in a handle, A B, thesecond lever terminating in a handle, B, and hinged to the principallever, as at b. On the lever A are two studs, C D. The stud C isdesigned for setting the primer. The shell is denoted in solid block, asset thereon. The primer having been previously set into the cavity inthe shell, the lever B is brought down thereon, and a boss or shortstud, a, strikes the primer, and the closing of the levers forces theprimer to the seat, as seen in Fig. 2. The other stud, D, is used forremoving the primer after firing, and for this purpose a pin, 61, is setcentrally in the upper end of the stud D, and a cavity, 0, formed in thelever B above; hence, when the shell with the primer (exploded or not)is placed upon the stud D, and the lever B forced down thereon, the pind will pass through the opening in the shell, and force the primer fromits seat, as seen in Fig. 2. In rear of the studs C D, or at otherconvenient point, a cavity, E, is formed in the part A corresponding tothe form of the fully-charged cartridge, as seen in Fig. 2.

After the cartridge has been supplied with the primer and powder, theball is set into the mouth of the shell, and then placed in the cavityE; then the lever E forced down therein will drive the shell onto theball until it is perfectly set, at which time the lever comes to a rest.

In order to extract the thus completelycharged cartridge, an extractor,F, is hung upon the pivot 12, and extends forward, so as to lie beneaththe rim of the cartridge, as seen in Fig. 2. In rear of the pivot is aprojection, f, on the extractor, which is struck by the end it of thelever B when it is open, as denoted in broken lines, Fig. 2. This causesthe inner end of the extractor to rise and force the charged cartridgeupward and out from the cavity. Thus are combined in one instrument allthe devices requisite for priming and completely charging the cartridge.

I claim The herein-described cartridge-loader, consisting of the leversA B, the studs C D, the cavity E, and the extractor F, constructed andoperating substantially as set forth.

WILLIAM W. WINCHESTER.

Witnesses:

JOHN E. EARLE, A. J. TIBBITS.

